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International audience: Ngọc’s book Sketches for a Portrait of Hà Nội has attracted the interest of many readers including foreigners. Photos Đoàn Tùng This article originally appeared at vietnamnews.vn. By Hà Nguyễn

This review originally appeared at diaCRITICS.org. Reviewed by Z.M. Quỳnh “South Vietnam paid a horrendous price in the war – ultimately losing more than a quarter of a million South Vietnamese soldiers between 1955 and

By Lorrie Goldensohn Asia-Pacific Research, September 04, 2018 The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 22 August 2018 Among the two million and more young men who went to Vietnam as soldiers, those dozens who came home to write

This post originally appeared at ipick.vn “Mr. Nguyen Quang Dy is retired from Viet Nam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He studied in Australia and in the U.S., at Harvard, where he was a Nieman Fellow. His writings

Photo: Pham Vinh Cat, 80, at home in his village, Le Hong in Hai Duong Province, where he lives with his wife. A nurse during the Tet offensive in 1968, he treated thousands of wounded soldiers in Danang.Credit Nick

This reflection first appeared at Viet Nam News on June 16, 2018. By Thomas Eugene Wilber It began in Thọ Xuân District, Thanh Hóa Province, Việt Nam At about 4pm local time on Sunday, the sixteenth day of June 1968, air

Photo: Vietnamese immigrants gather at Houston City Hall with signs for the ceremony of the sixth anniversary of the fall of South Vietnam, 1981. Courtesy of Larry Reese and the Houston Chronicle. Image available on the Internet

Photo by Nguyen Huy Kham / Reuters This article originally appeared at TheAtlantic.com on April 30, 2018. By Elisabeth Rosen Today, April 30, red flags are festooning the streets of Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital, to mark the

CAPTION: Unexploded ordnance are found in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri. Photo by VnExpress/Quang Ha This article originally appeared at VNExpress International on April 18, 2018. By Vu Minh The Norwegian

Photo: Do Ba, 60, was rescued by the helicopter crew of Hugh Thompson and Larry Coburn, during the My Lai massacre, but his mother and two siblings were killed. Credit: Thomas Maresca/For USA TODAY This article originally

Photo: Ha Thi Quy, 93, a survivor of the My Lai massacre, remembers the tragedy that killed her mother and daughter. Photo by Pham Linh. This post originally appeared at vnexpress.net. By Pham Linh. Some people are trying to

Before the war: A photograph of Wilber (right) and his father in 1960. Viet Nam NewsBy Hồng Vân. Thomas Eugene Wilber was 12 years old when his father’s plane was shot down in Việt Nam and taken prisoner. Just a day

“The Vietnam War a Conversation” explores the many ways Oregonians were affected by the dramatic and traumatic events of those times. In this conversation with “Think Out Loud” host Dave Miller, two Oregonians share their

This article originally appeared at the newyorktimes.com. By THANH TAN. I am emotionally exhausted. By the end of this month, I will have seen 36 hours of documentary film about a momentous event that is the backbone of my

This article originally appeared at Newsworks.org. This story is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is still processing the Vietnam War. To learn more about the topic, watch Ken Burns and

This article originally appeared at Counterpunch.org. By Mike Hastie. I just got through reading Nick Turse’s article in “The Intercept” for September 28, 2017. His article is titled: “The Ken Burns Vietnam War

This article originally appeared at e.vnexpress.net. By Staff Reporters. Vietnam’s foreign ministry spokesperson hopes that ‘the American people and filmmakers understand the legitimacy of the resistance

This article originally appeared at the newyorktimes.com. BY VAN NGUYEN MARSHALL. The year 1967 was a watershed for antiwar protest in the United States, from bold statements like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s

This article originally appeared at the newyorktimes.com. By Viet Thanh Nguyen and Richard Hughes. Phan Thanh Hung Duc, 20, lies immobile and silent, his midsection covered haphazardly by a white shirt with an ornate

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This Month in History: 1969

February First trial of draft resistors known as the Buffalo 9. Around 150 University of Buffalo students and faculty picket the U.S. Courthouse, chanting “Free the Nine — The Trial’s a Crime”. Defendants argue that it was necessary to resist an “immoral, illegal, racist, politically insane war on the Vietnamese people.” Charges include assaulting federal officers, as well as draft evasion. The jury is unable to reach a verdict on several of the defendants but Bruce Beyer is convicted and receives a three-year sentence. Beyer later goes to Canada and then Sweden to help organize fellow resistors and deserters.

February Fort Gordon – Pfc. Dennis Davis editor of (the antiwar newspaper) Last Harass) is given an undesirable discharge.

February 14 The first three of 27 Gls charged with mutiny at the Presidio are found guilty and sentenced to 14, 15, and 16 years at hard labor by a court martial at the San Francisco Presidio stockade (see entry for October 14, 1968). By this time, three of those charged (Blake, Mather, and Pawlowski) had escaped to Canada. On appeal, the long sentences for mutiny were voided by the Court of Military Review in June 1970, and reduced to short sentences for willful disobedience of a superior officer. Rowland, for example, was released in 1970 after a year and a half imprisonment. See The Unlawful Concert by Fred Gardner for a fuller description of the case, as well as entry for October 14, 1968.

February 20 Tacoma – the Shelter Half coffee house’s business license is revoked. See October 1968 entry.

February 22-23 NLF attack 110 targets throughout South Vietnam, including Saigon.

February 25 36 U.S. Marines are killed by NVA (PAVN or VPA) who raid their base camp near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

2016 National Book Award Finalist, Viet Thanh Nguyen:

“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory . . . . Memory is haunted, not just by ghostly others but by the horrors we have done, seen, and condoned, or by the unspeakable things from which we have profited.”